Cash-carrier



(No Model.)

W. S. REED. GASH CARRIER.

Patented Nov. 4, 1890-.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM S. REED, OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CASH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,686, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed March 14, 1890. Serial No. 343,880. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. REED, of Leominster, in the county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Carriers, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View showing my improvement in use, and Figs. 2 and 3 views illustrating diiferentforms of the money-carriages.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates especially to a conduit or track for a cash-carrier; and it consists in certain novel features, hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation. I

In the drawings, A represents the cashiers or receiving desk, B B counters, and O D the carriers. At suitable positions on the counters two vertical standards or ways I) are mounted and fitted to travel in these Ways. There is a carriage 61, adapted to contain a carrier 0 D.

A cord f has one end secured to the carriage d, said cord passing over a pulley j in the upper portion of said Ways, whereby said carriage may be elevated. A cord 71, secured to the bottom of the carriage, is employed for returning it to the counter B.

The conduit or track H consists of a tube of spirally-wound wire of suitable diameter to permit the passage of the carrier D or O therethrough. This conduit has one end connected to the carriage 01, its opposite end opening into the receiving-desk A. The carrier D consists of a hollow ball adapted to contain the money, and is of the ordinary form and construction used in cash-carrier apparatus.

The carrier 0 is tOrpedoshaped, and is divided into separable sections adapted to contain the money when closed. Said carriers are constructed of less diameter than the tube 11 to enable them to travel readily therein.

In the use of my improvement the operator disposes a carrier 0 or D containing the cash in the carriage d and elevates said carriage by means of the cord f until it is above the horizontal plane of the receiving-desk A. The tube H, connecting said desk and carriage, is thus lifted until it inclines toward said desk. The carriage, being tilted by means of a stop on the ways I] in the ordinary manner, throws the carrier D into the tube, through Which it rapidly passes to the receiving desk. The conduit H, being constructed as described, is readily expansible, and does not interfere with the operation of the carriage (1. Moreover, said conduit can be passed around bends or curves, frequently necessary in the carrier system, without interfering with the passage of the carrier therethrough.

I do not confine myself to any specific means of connecting the receiving-desk with the various carrier-delivery points, as the peculiar construction of the conduit admits of its disposition in any desired manner. Nor do I confine myself to any particular construction of carriers 0 and D, as any form suitable for passing through the interior of the tube H may be employed- Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is 1. A conduit or track for cash-carriers, comprising a fixed flexible tube constructed of spirally-wound wire and of sufficient diameter to receive the rolling carrier, substantially as described.

2. In a cash-carrier apparatus, a fixed flexible tube connecting a receiving and delivery point and constructed of spirally-wound wire, in combination with a spherical carrier adapted to roll in said tube, substantially as described.

WILLIAM S. REED.

Witnesses HAMILTON MAYO, F. O. LOTHROP. 

